@article{thegatenotthecachegateprovenanceboundsth, title = {The Gate, Not the Cache: Gate Provenance Bounds the Closed-Loop Reliability of Training-Free VLA Token Skipping}, author = {Qi Luo and Shuaijun Liu and Hao Zhao and Kunlin Li and Xiaobo Wang and Ningxing Su and Dongsheng Wang and Yun Chen}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.00391}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00391}, }